Taken from SBKT045: Skyshaker - Novox 10
Release date: 26th November 2021
Artwork by Sam Madhu
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

After a decade navigating ten communities surrounding ten genres of Black music, House of Vemanei founder Skyshaker shares their latest mixtape as an anthology reimagining select cuts from the SVBKVLT back catalog. Novox 10 is an ingenious take on the remix album as Sky LaBeija commemorates a decade of remixing under the Skyshaker alias

In their own words:

“Novox 10 is a vocal album of the voiceless. With the number 10 pronounced in your own native tongue, this is a collection of electronic music commemorating a decade of Black voices silenced by anti-black racism and xenophobia. The Black experience remains an inspirational cornerstone of popular music worldwide, yet Black artists with deeper skin color remain doubted, dismissed, and uncompensated. Popular music in Asia is no exception, as fair-skinned Asian artists rise to superstardom and financial prosperity off the backs of Black artistry and Black suffering. Novox 10 emerges in Shanghai as a navigation beyond that contempt into a place of autonomy, authority, and commitment towards the shaping of worlds in which Black people best fit.

As a retracing of steps through my own coming-out process, Novox 10 revisits my utilization of diasporic sound as a means of creating surrogate family structures as an unhoused queer youth. After a decade of assimilation and traversing ideologies, skills I considered merely tools of survival are now celebrated as home-grown versatility that both saved my life and built a career unchained by genre. What began as a decision to rest as a songwriter for others has become a reclamation of my own voice, as a singer living with selective mutism. Novox 10 is my return to singing via songs unsung, at once mourning and recontextualizing the silence that came before.

With sounds lovingly gifted by their original artists, Novox 10 is an album within an album for voices not yet stepped into. A show of gratitude for all I gained over all I lost as a ghostwriter. It is more than an homage to the music of my childhood and the DJs that saved my life. Each song is a gateway to other bodies of work directing Black feminine bodies towards the same single truth: There is space to do all we intend to. Our only mission is to arrive and return there.”

Novox 10

Zaliva-D - End Of The Sky (Skyshaker Fem4Fem Edition)

An ode to failure!

Departing from the image of the genius artists, the Hit&Miss compilation wants to show the hidden parts of creation, by embracing missteps and abandonment as a natural part of any artistic journey. 

Open to all members of the Global URL Nation, it proposed a new home for projects that couldn't find a place to exist otherwise, due to artistic (self-)exigency, technical problems, bad timing or any other reason often unknown to the general public. 

With more than 20 artists from a broad range of styles, experience and locations, it gathers unfinished projects such as aborted WIP, forgotten drafts, lost files, unconvincing demos, compulsive emotional bursts or technical experimentations. 

With all its flaws and raw cuts, Hit&Miss asserts the strength of trial and error, and cherishes the impossibility to develop an idea into a finished object as a learning process towards one's growth.


++ TRACKLIST ++

01. Antilita Octovyk - Mother Earth Solitude
02. Basura - Erythritol
03. Bademjan - The Blade Is Over
04. King Demitri - Reinitializing Heaven
05. Lukann - Blossom
06. Antilita Octovyk - Here Comes The Moon
07. Ancestral Vision - Mana Double Cup
08. RougeHotel - Sync 2 (demo before PSM 2020)
09. Bademjan - Ringfields
10. indigoblue - 060421
11. Pénélope - La rosée
12. Bademjan - Steel Lumens 
13. Sxmbra - Gloss
14. grrggg - unnerving rdm demo
15. Heart Shaped DJ - Me or everyone else
16. Fungal Mat - Dead or dormant?
17. jjjacob - Kijana
18. Nagruv - Barp (more percussion needed)
19. Bouzouk - Future Dog (Whatever)
20. grrggg - celestial gates demo
21. Cralias - ?collab
22. DJ Criminal Edit - Libertinages dans la pyramide
23. DJ Rotule - Ponpon
24. crat - too dudey
25. Medejin - Má forma
26. Antilita Octovyk - Fuck Marry Kill
27. LMN3 - CANNAPEASE
28. Antilita Octovyk - Лайка
29. grrggg - rocky rdm instrumental 
30. SNKLS - Problème avec personne (Brandy & Monica VIP)
31. J Sliwa - External Schism
32. Andres Komatsu - Tecmo
33. grrggg - CB2012
34. DJ Rotule - Departure (HxH NxC Edit)
35. crat - Asynchronous voice
36. Bademjan - Bleu Lunaire


++ CREDITS ++ 

Tracks produced by Ancestral Vision, Andres Komatsu, Antilita Octovyk, Bademjan, Basura, Bouzouk, Cralias, crat, DJ Criminal Edit, DJ Rotule, Fungal Mat, grrggg, Heart Shaped DJ, indigoblue, jjjacob, J Sliwa,  King Demitri, LMN3, Lukann, Medejin, Nagruv, Pénélope, RougeHotel, SNKLS, Sxmbra

https://soundcloud.com/ancestralvision
https://soundcloud.com/andreskomatsu
https://soundcloud.com/talitaotovic
https://soundcloud.com/bademjan
https://soundcloud.com/bazura
https://soundcloud.com/bouzouk
https://soundcloud.com/cralias
https://soundcloud.com/becrat
https://soundcloud.com/fungalmat
https://soundcloud.com/grrggg
https://soundcloud.com/indigoblue97
https://soundcloud.com/jjjacob
https://soundcloud.com/jsliwa
https://soundcloud.com/kingdemitri
https://soundcloud.com/lmn3muzik
https://soundcloud.com/lukann4
https://soundcloud.com/medejin
https://soundcloud.com/nagruv
https://soundcloud.com/poirot-penelope
https://soundcloud.com/rougeh0tel
https://soundcloud.com/snakeleserpent
https://soundcloud.com/sxmbra

Cover & visual works by Boris Van de Walle & Robin Lopvet
https://www.instagram.com/magicienboz/
https://www.instagram.com/robinlopvet/

Mastering by Bademjan

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RougeHotel - Sync 2 (demo before PSM 2020)

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@elirrealveintiuno - Irrealidades
Format: Digital
Release: March 31st, 2023

Irrealidades is the new album from Mexican scene stalwart Bryan Dálvez, El Irreal Veintiuno on Infinite Machine. Although his reputation is well-established at home through EPs and tracks on NAAFI, Subreal and Infinite Machine itself, Irrealidades comes across as his boldest and most cohesive statement yet.

The album is a kaleidoscopic survey of Mexico’s rich sonic landscape, as well as an ambitious attempt to encompass the country’s historical becoming: from the rich, imagined sounds of pre-hispanic times to its current war-torn reality.

But an academic pursuit this isn’t and this is still very much music for the body. From the get-go, drums burn and rhythms gallop; sharp, aggressive synths insist and prod. Un respiro, the album’s mid-point gives us exactly that, a breather, albeit an emotionally charged one. Soon enough the second half of the record returns to polyrhythmic fury and ravey turbulence. We reach fever pitch on closer Minorías, envisioned by Bryan as a sonic representation of the eschaton: “the last track is merely the end of everything”.

Throughout the record disjointed voices loop endlessly before managing to articulate a single intelligible word. Maybe, Irrealidades seems to say, we are also caught in a loop, unable to break out from the cycle of violence and marching irredeemably (but with healthy curiosity) into The End, when Quetzalcóatl makes his glorious return.

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El Irreal Veintiuno - Días Extraños

‘Inflatable Gravestone’ is the debut album by Mun Sing (aka Harry Wright) released on https://soundcloud.com/planetmurecords on 2nd June 2023

https://munsing.bandcamp.com/album/inflatable-gravestone

The motivating force of the album is the sudden loss of Harry’s father in 2020. Their father struggled with substance addiction and the album explores ideas of 'spirituality' and the ‘higher self’ in relation to addiction and its parallels with the coping mechanisms of grief. It also aims to highlight the importance of humour and distraction when coping with loss.

Serving as a narrative for their own experiences, the album is largely built around club-centred tracks (such as ‘Spider’ and ’Squabble’) broken up by moments of yearning and reflection in tracks like ’The Poison Garden’ and ‘Helhest (Azrael Smirks)’ and moments of dark anguish like 'Inheritor' with its heavy slab-like chords and pensive piano. Flirting with awkward and suggestive rhythms, Wright deliberately suspends moments of resolution and groove in favour of drama and jerky, unexpected cartoonish humour, taking as much influence from the likes of the Art Of Noise as Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. 

Wright rewards the listener with moments of clarity and introspection like flags on the journey, recruiting vocalist MX World to deliver lyrics and melodic ideas created by them and their father. Their father’s journals in rehab helped inform most of the lyrics. Some take whole sentences as a way to physically ‘give life’ to his words for the first time. The lyrics describe feelings, revelations and  apocalyptic hallucinations. MX World's clear, direct tone suggests folk music and the timelessness of the human condition.

The album concludes with the title track ‘Inflatable Gravestone’ which features a chorus of giddy manipulated laughter from Wright’s friends and family to a truly maddening effect. This is then resolved by bright and clear piano chords and the sound of Wright’s father breathing in his sleep. A deeply affecting and personal record with corkscrew twists and turns and a healthy dose of absurdism. 
credits
releases June 2, 2023

All tracks written and produced by Harry Wright. Lyrics by Harry Wright, except track 10 lyrics by Harry Wright and William Wright. Lead vocals by MX World. Additional vocals by Nashne, Akiko Haruna and Mouse.

Mastered by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven Mastering.

Published by Domino Publishing.

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@lithetrax's 'Gabba Charm' is part of @club-late-music's first 'Chain Of Whispers' experiment.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/lithe-gabba-charm

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Premiere: Lithe - Gabba Charm

@bonaventure_mbote

CLUB CHAI Vol. 2 is a collection of tracks by artists whose work truly embodies the Club Chai ethos that exists in storytelling through sound. As we close out the label, this release remains a lustrous perspective on the future.

Alongside the compilation, the Club Chai Archive book is out today on our Bandcamp. You can preorder the book alongside the digital release of the compilation for a bundled price of $35 ($15 for the compilation and $25 for the book).

The archive book is a culmination of all the moving parts that make up Club Chai at once – a way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. A way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. How do we remember and archive something that is really made up of a fleeting feeling? Being on the dancefloor with friends, singing in unison or zoning out in complete bliss. It feels right to create something physical that can be held, touched and encountered slowly and 
carefully. Making this book entirely with friends makes it feel even more intimate and special. 

Mastering: 8ULENTINA & Lara Sarkissian

Artwork credits:
Photo: Lara Sarkissian & 8ULENTINA
Textile: 8ULENTINA
Artwork edits & processing: Jessika Khazrik
 
Club Chai Book Design:
Art and Design Direction: Azha Luckman @azhaayanna 
& Peter Dolezilek @topchef_allstars

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Record Label based in Mexico City.
Founded in Montréal, Est. 2011 by @xwolfcultx.

for sync & licensing - gavin@syncsmith.com

Bookings: allen@awesome-agency.com
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